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HTML with Excel (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by jas0n@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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My sister started a new position that involves HTML. She tried to explain an issue to me, but I'm not a web guy. I told her to send it to me on Monday and she sent this...

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Oh, that's an excellent way to start if you're building a database in CSS.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 55 points 1 month ago (9 children)

https://css-tricks.com/css-database-queries/

  1. Use a hand-modified-to-ESM version of SQL.js, which is SQLite in JavaScript.
  2. Get a database ready that SQL.js can query.
  3. Build a Houdini PaintWorklet that executes queries in JavaScript and paints the results back to the screen in that -y way that PaintWorklets do.
  4. Pass the query you want to run into the worklet by way of a CSS custom property.
[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)
  1. Go straight to jail.

Edit: No idea what's up with the formatting. In my app this shows as step 5 but it seems to render as step 1. Is the Lemmy DB done in CSS?

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